This Holstee wallet is handmade mostly of newspapers and plastic bags collected off the streets of Delhi, India. The production of this wallet helps reduce waste in Delhi, and workers receive fair wages and subsidized healthcare and education for their family. Sweet, right?

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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle everything…. and we all can do our part to help mother earth by planting a tree…. we can help our fellow earth friends by not eating them, and by planting a garden and eating the fresh veggies..

Try to keep a balanced diet without products that use meat and also be sure to use your bike or the local buses and metro rails. they are there for you and they will usually get you to where you need to go.

Turn your lawn into a garden! Being vegan gets even better when you have fresh organic fruits and veggies at your fingertips. You’ll due away with the pesticides and wasted resources for transport. Bon apetite!

I have a lot of them! Im a vegan so im always encouraging people to be vegan too, so i guess that would be my number one tip. I think its the best tip you can follow because it will not only be good for you, but it will also be good for the animals and the enviroment! Everyone wins 😀

I love biking and carpooling with friends. It’s so much fun and easier on the enviroment.
Plus recycling is great too. It’s great to have a place where you don’t have to throw everything away so it can rot in a landfill.

Not eating meat definitely helps our planet… Also supporting organic and natural food sources is good. The gmo’s in most of our food, mostly distributed by Monsanto, is like eating a veggie Frankenstein, and they dumb us down with all the chemicals…. And when we are dumb, we will be unable to even THINK of going vegan, or recycling, or reducing our wastes, or doing anything efficient for mother earth.

Because not EVERYONE can say “Go vegan!!”: Take one day a week to give yourself a break from your internet and phone, and do non-electric activities. I like to read in the sunlight and play acoustic guitar all day!

In the summer I help my dad with our huge garden, where the water is pumped up from his lake and no pesticides or chemicals are used. The food from the garden is always better than the stuff from the store!

My favorite Eco-friendly tip is to be more literate about how to save the environment like recycling, finding more efficient ways of obtaining power, or even just riding a bike to places or car-pooling. And of course going to become a Veg*n

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Recycle anything and everything. Glass, plastic, paper, batteries, metal, cell phones. EVERYTHING. Reduce wastes by eating vegan, riding bikes or walking instead of driving. Reuse things- like wash water bottles instead of buying new bottles each time, take old items and make them into new things like jeans into purses etc.

Breath in, and breath out, we need to stand united and protest against the cruelty of animals, no more should they have to be killed, stand up against the cruelty, stand up against the pollution, stand up and declare, WE ARE HERE, WE ARE ALIVE AND WE WILL BE HEARD, no more will we stand by while the earth is destroyed, no more will we stand on the side lines and watch as animals all over the world are being killed for human consumption, we can not stand by and watch our planet be destroyed, we must stand up and fight for what we beleive in, a planet where all life is created equal, where plants and animals are cared for with the love and peace from the bottom of our soul, recycle, reuse, replenish the earth so that it may last generation after generation and then and only then will we be able to live happy and free, I love all of you, May you be happy and peaceful, treat eachother and our planet with great respect and love the animals who do nothing but love us, dont mistreat, LOVE Just LOVE

Being a vegetarian/vegan can definitely help the environment. Factories used for animal products cause sooo much pollution. So not only does converting to vegetarianism help your health and animal rights, it also heals the earth. And you can never forget this ” Reduce,Reuse, Recycle!”

Don’t use pesticides/herbicides on your lawn!!! Not only does this pollute water, it can harm the plants (more so than actually helping them) and can make your animals VERY sick! It can also hurt the little animals that live in your yard too.

My eco tip: Instead of keeping the water faucet on the entire time you wash dishes, (if you don’t use a dishwasher) just fill up one side of the sink with soapy water and use that. It saves a lot of water.(:

The three R’s! Reduce, reuse, and recycle! That’s definitely my favorite eco-friendly tip–it’s catchy, simple, and beneficial to remember for our environment. If everyone can remember those three simple words, then our environment would greatly be helped since reducing our waste will also reduce energy used to rid of the waste; reusing materials will decrease the amount of waste that ends up in landfills; and recycling can also help decrease the amount of energy used in creating new products.
Soo…REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE!

turn the dial on your washing machine to cold. Most loads don’t need hot water, and 90% of the energy used by washing machines goes into heating. The higher the water temperature, the higher the cost to you and the planet.

Biodegradable shampoos that are cruelty free are now easy to come across and easy on your wallet too! Using reusable bags at the grocery store can be super easy too. My favorite thing to do to help our planet is working in my garden and using rainwater to water my local plants.

My favourite eco-friendly tip is to UNPLUG your electronics when they are not in use! Appliances like microwaves, toasters, kettles, televisions and electronic chargers all leech power even while the devices are “off” or not in use.

I recycle anything that I can and I give away clothes that my children have outgrown rather than throwing them away. Going veg and encourging my children to do the same!!!!! They love the veg meals I make them.

Easy up-cycle that involves drinking!! 😉 And it’s totally stuff you/ us affected “hipstershits” haha can/would do do! Sure, we don’t want to admit it.. but our two-buck chuck at trader j-hoe’s is becoming a bi……..tri? *ahem* weekly occurrence. Imbibe first, natch- it actually helps if you have a few collected first… then soak those bottles is some hot dr. bronners soap until the labels fall/easily peel off (we don’t want residue- just that green jewel-toned glass), and repurpose them as vases and windchimes. Hell, any of it that breaks, set in on a smooth surface (end tables, those decorative ball thing- I modge podged /lacquered broken up-cycled glass and made into some rad coasters!) As for the corks, our entire front garden island is mulched with natural cork! very unique.

One of my favorite eco-friendly tips is to always use either a travel mug when visiting coffee shops or your own mug at work. Forget disposables, they don’t have any personality & if you have some ugly mugs lying around at home, bring them to work, someone’s bound to steal them 😉

As a devoted eco-friendly activist, it is hard to choose just one of my favorite tips. But if I had to choose one, I’d say recycle everything you can, whether through reuse or putting your bottles, cans, glass and cardboard in the recycling bin. Because we currently live in a “throw-away” society, recycling is a very important action that needs to be taken by everyone in order to preserve our resources.

One of my favorite eco-friendly tips is composting. Compost can be used as a fertilizer. Other fertilizers can contain chemicals that can pollute the environment. This can cause damage to animals, humans, and even some plants. Especially when those chemicals pollute the water the use.

Simplify your life as much as possible. Only keep belongings that you use/enjoy on a regular basis. By making the effort to reduce what you own, you will naturally purchase less/create less waste in the future.

1. Working more with plants instead with electronic gadgets.
2. Use natural colors instead of chemic paints.
3. Reduce carbon prints
4. Use florescent lights instead of tube lights
5. Grow vegetable, fruits plants in your garden
6. Use bio-degradable instead of plastics.
7. Call to the person, instead of travelling till him/her
8. Use social networking sites/ Internet to get connected or to gain knowledge. Internet has made world a small place

Reusing packaging material saves more energy than recycling. By avoiding extra packaging, you save both energy and landfill space. Yard and kitchen waste (leaves/grass/vegetable scraps) are 30% of trash. Reduce this amount by composting. Also be sure to re-use plastic bags, or better yet… refuse plastic bags when you really don’t need them.

My eco-friendly tip is to use vinegar instead of harmful chemicals on floors and other surfaces. Products such as Swiffer Sweeper cloths contain deadly chemicals that have been proven to make dogs and cats sick , as well as killing them. The ‘fresh air scent’ is attractive to animals and they lick floors touched by the cloths.

Vinegar is natural, eco-friendly, and perfectly harmless. It smells a bit , but that dissapears once it dries. You can combine it with water and it cleans wood, plastic, linoleum etc. beautifully.
The next time you have to clean a dirty surface, use vinegar instead of perfumed chemicals- Your pets and your body will thank you!

I am very eco-friendly!! so this is easy for me to answer. My favorite eco-friendly tip is to plant a tree.
One tree releases enough oxygen to sustain only TWO PEOPLE, so its obvious that we need to plant a heck of a lot more trees.
Trees also help to reduce ozone levels.
I actually wrote down 20 eco-friendly tips and taped them to my refrigerator so all my family can read them and help out.

Recycling! If its recyclable I make sure it gets into a recycling bin, even if there aren’t any in sight. I live near NYC and there are not enough recycling bins, people call me crazy. I’m just trying to save the planet!! 😀

Obe of my favorite eco friendly tips would be recycling obviously! I’ve recently gotten into reusing my sandwich bags, because it saves us money, and also saves the amount of plastic bags going into the dump. Also remember to turn off the lights when you leave a room, a little action which easily makes a big difference <3
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Upcycling! Especially clothing…I rarely buy new clothes because our local Goodwill and garage sales have such amazing findings. Whatever I can’t find, I make, or I find an indie artist who can make it for me in a sustainable, earth-friendly way. Many thanks!

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